The New Aluminum F 150's

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I've heard of this but haven't seen any specifics and I'm not in the market for a new truck but if I were, I'd take a look.

Ford announces pricing for aluminum 2015 F-150


Published July 28, 2014


Ford’s new aluminum-bodied 2015 F-150 is dropping hundreds of pounds, but may make your wallet only slightly lighter.

Pricing for the pickups was announced today, with entry level XL and XLT models costing $395 more than the 2014 trucks, at $26,615 and $31,890, Reuters reports.

The increase varies across trim levels, with premium King Ranch trucks seeing the biggest jump of $3,515 to $49,460, and the top of the line Platinum now starting at $52,155, $3,055 more, but Ford says all trucks come with a higher level of standard equipment.

Dealers can begin ordering trucks today, but they don’t go on sale to the public until the fourth quarter of this year. Only five trim levels will be available at launch, including the popular Lariat with an $895 increase, compared to the current 11, according to Automotive News.

Ford last week revealed the official weight loss of the radical new trucks at between 625 and 732 lbs, depending on trim level.
 
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I was thinking the price increase would be much more! That will be my next truck for sure, but mine is less than a year old. 700 lbs is huge, should help gas mileage as well.
 
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ezra

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I am at 42k on my 12 so I will prob be in one this time next yr try to dump at 60k.I don't think it will make much diff to me I usually have 7or800 lbs in the bed and really don't see much diff when empty. but I always have a heavy foot.
just hope they can get paint to stick ford has not always had the best luck with there alloy hoods and trunks in the past. kinda like when GM tried galvanized
 
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ezra said:
I am at 42k on my 12 so I will prob be in one this time next yr try to dump at 60k.I don't think it will make much diff to me I usually have 7or800 lbs in the bed and really don't see much diff when empty. but I always have a heavy foot.
just hope they can get paint to stick ford has not always had the best luck with there alloy hoods and trunks in the past. kinda like when GM tried galvanized
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Is that Arctic Cat really that heavy? ;)
 
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ezra

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no that,s all the glued together A arms I have to haul around so we can make a full weekend. I do still have a zrt8 though that is prob pushing 7bills
 
indy_500

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750 lbs still ain't lighter than a Chevy! What a joke every body style ford half ton has always been about 1000 lbs more. But of course I'm too young to know anything...
 
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kip

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Yes Indy you're and your words prove that. Thanks for the reassurance:) Chevy is lighter where it shouldn't be like cheap wheel bearings and brakes that often fail along with ignition switches. Hey Indy what did the Ford say to the Chevy? Ah, I don't RECALL!!! You're in over your head so please by all means keep it coming:)
 
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jccams

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Gas tank rotted out on the first and only F150 I had at 3 years and 49,000 miles. I think that was the start of their weight reduction program. :)
 
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momoney2123

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kip said:
Yes Indy you're and your words prove that. Thanks for the reassurance:) Chevy is lighter where it shouldn't be like cheap wheel bearings and brakes that often fail along with ignition switches. Hey Indy what did the Ford say to the Chevy? Ah, I don't RECALL!!! You're in over your head so please by all means keep it coming:)
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Werent all the chevy recalls on the small cars? None on trucks...at least the last few I have owned. I think youd be hard pressed to not find a large manufacturer that doesnt have some kind of recall. And 1000lbs on wheel bearings weight savings? Pah
 
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kip

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Yeah Yeah Yeah, they all got their faults. This is in good fun boys:) Everyone gets their turn. In the 90's Chevy's were very hot. I know, we sold them and you couldn't touch a used on at the auctions. In my humble opinion Ford has taken a turn for the better in this decade and are more reliable than Chevy. I'm also not a huge fan of the way Chevy handled their business as far as the bailout was concerned. It wasn't fair so I may be just a bit bias right now but I can admit that without problem. It's one thing to have a recall but when the company knows and doesn't fix it and innocent families suffer, that's not right either.

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Also, I never said 1,000 lb. wheel bearings? Too funny. I said it's not a good place to lose weight on a part of a vehicle and my point was that the parts are lighter in areas where they shouldn't be. Wow momoney:) These conversations are useless when you get foolish replies like that. I'll have to be out of this one.
 
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ezra said:
I am at 42k on my 12 so I will prob be in one this time next yr try to dump at 60k.I don't think it will make much diff to me I usually have 7or800 lbs in the bed and really don't see much diff when empty. but I always have a heavy foot.
just hope they can get paint to stick ford has not always had the best luck with there alloy hoods and trunks in the past. kinda like when GM tried galvanized
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Agree about the paint issue on alloy. I like the idea of the aluminum body but Ford hasn't figured out how to paint them properly. Just look at the back door of my '10 Expedition EL - or just about any Expedition from about 2000 on. You'd be hard pressed to find one that didn't have significant corrosion and paint bubbles. I lucked out with my '03 - it didn't have any. Last year I had to replace the '03 after totalling it. I looked at a lot of trucks and didn't find a single one '10 or earlier that didn't have visible corrosion.
 
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kip said:
Yeah Yeah Yeah, they all got their faults. This is in good fun boys:) Everyone gets their turn. In the 90's Chevy's were very hot. I know, we sold them and you couldn't touch a used on at the auctions. In my humble opinion Ford has taken a turn for the better in this decade and are more reliable than Chevy. I'm also not a huge fan of the way Chevy handled their business as far as the bailout was concerned. It wasn't fair so I may be just a bit bias right now but I can admit that without problem. It's one thing to have a recall but when the company knows and doesn't fix it and innocent families suffer, that's not right either.

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Also, I never said 1,000 lb. wheel bearings? Too funny. I said it's not a good place to lose weight on a part of a vehicle and my point was that the parts are lighter in areas where they shouldn't be. Wow momoney:) These conversations are useless when you get foolish replies like that. I'll have to be out of this one.
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My 04' F150 King Ranch and '09 Edge Limited both ate wheel bearings like they were candy. The F150 bearing issue was pretty normal (I was told) for higher mileage FWD but the Edge issue was a design flaw which Ford admitted but would not create a technical service bulletin or full blown recall for. I will buy a Ford any day over a GM though, quality company with good leadership.

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kip said:
Yeah Yeah Yeah, they all got their faults. This is in good fun boys:) Everyone gets their turn. In the 90's Chevy's were very hot. I know, we sold them and you couldn't touch a used on at the auctions. In my humble opinion Ford has taken a turn for the better in this decade and are more reliable than Chevy. I'm also not a huge fan of the way Chevy handled their business as far as the bailout was concerned. It wasn't fair so I may be just a bit bias right now but I can admit that without problem. It's one thing to have a recall but when the company knows and doesn't fix it and innocent families suffer, that's not right either.

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Also, I never said 1,000 lb. wheel bearings? Too funny. I said it's not a good place to lose weight on a part of a vehicle and my point was that the parts are lighter in areas where they shouldn't be. Wow momoney:) These conversations are useless when you get foolish replies like that. I'll have to be out of this one.
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You werent implying that the reason chevys are roughly 1000lbs less is because of cheaper parts like wheel bearings and switches? Thats the way I took It.
 
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kip

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Guess you could look at it that way:) I meant that it's a good start. I've gotten into this too deep and I shouldn't have. Today, I'm an idiot.
 
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Look at the sales boys, that's all you need to see. 34 years in a row, or something like that, as the number one selling vehicle in America, that says it all. If you want a truck, get a Ford, if you want a car/truck, get a Chevy. How many landscape companies, snow plow companies or similar companies that rely on their trucks for heavy duty work, have fleets of Fords vs. Chevy/GM? It's not even close.
 
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momoney2123

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Thats a loaded evaluation. If you combine GMC and chevy (which is identical pickups virtually) they outsell ford....as some have mentioned I could live with any of the big 3 to get me up north to ride.
 
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mspease said:
Look at the sales boys, that's all you need to see. 34 years in a row, or something like that, as the number one selling vehicle in America, that says it all. If you want a truck, get a Ford, if you want a car/truck, get a Chevy. How many landscape companies, snow plow companies or similar companies that rely on their trucks for heavy duty work, have fleets of Fords vs. Chevy/GM? It's not even close.
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Its false to assume that because contractors and fleets buy a certain brand because its perceived its better quality.
Fleets buy on price 95% of the time. I drove fleet trucks for 30 yrs and all out trucks were purchased from the low bidder which were mostly Ford and Dodge, occasional GM truck were a special purpose vehicle was needed, Tahoe and Sububan's. I asked the head of the purchasing division once about why we always got Dodge and he said we can get 10 Dodge trucks for the price of 9 Fords & Chevys. When you buy 500 the money adds up. When it comes time to buy more vehicles, they put the spec's out on bids and buy the lowest bid be it Chevy, GMC, Dodge or Ford.
 
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I will be buying the last red '14 FX4 on the lot in about Dec. Hopefully with the 5.4. One thing not covered yet is the cost of insurance with the new body. The insurance companies I checked do not yet have the numbers but all agree it will be higher than the 14 and older models. Ford wants all their body shops to buy a bunch of specialized equipment to fix the new 150's. About $50,000. worth of new equipment. This also tells me that the 150 is just the start. There will be killer rebates on the 14's and I don't really care if I have the latest and greatest. I have had many Chev pickups and the biggest reason I don't buy them anymore is that they all leaked dust into the interior. We have a lot of gravel roads here and oftentimes the inside of my pickup was dirtier than the outside. Ford seems to have that figured out. Too many electronics on ALL of them.
 
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